The Pale Tower
The glass vial was cold against Elias Thorne’s palm, the distilled lavender oil inside a pale, viscous amber that caught the grey light of the platform. He checked his watch, a brass instrument that had stopped working three winters ago, and then checked it again, the habit of verification a reflex born of displacement. The train to Edinburgh was late, as it always was, a fact that sat in his...
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